Stonington, CT – January 15, 1932

On January 15, 1932, a plane carrying three men left Boston bound for New York. The pilot, Glenn Parker, 22, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, was ferrying Cresson Parker, 31, and Earl Johnson, 22, both of Newport, New Hampshire, to New York so they could fly two new airplanes back to New England. While traveling along the southern coast of Rhode Island they encountered heavy fog, so the pilot dropped the airplane low to the ground. As they passed over the town of Westerly, R.I., they barely missed scraping the roofs of several buildings. Shortly after the plane passed from Westerly to the neighboring town of Stonington, it crashed near the New Haven Railroad tracks in the Pawcatuck section of town.

Cresson Parker later died at Westerly hospital from injuries he received in the crash. The other two men suffered cuts and abrasions, but recovered.